Lib io

Existing implementations

• .NET
• Java io nio
• C / C++ stdio
• C++ iostreams - Probably don't want to take a lot of influence from C++
• C++ boost iostreams
• C (Plan 9) bio - tidied up / simplified stdio
• D stdio - stdio-like
• Go - many fine-grained interfaces
• Python 3 io - includes text/binary division
• Common Lisp streams - very composable, possibly over-engineered
• Haskell System.IO
• Ada streams streamIO sequentialIO

Types of I/O sources and sinks

• File
• TCP socket
• Unix domain socket
• Pipe
• UDP
• Memory buffer
• String
• Formatting + formatted values
• Serialization

IO adaptors / filters / converters

• Pattern matching and replacement
• Character encodings
• Compression
• Encryption